{"id":286131,"date":"2026-02-16T03:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/286131\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T03:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:00:09","slug":"driver-fatigue-thought-to-be-behind-lake-hayes-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/286131\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver fatigue thought to be behind Lake Hayes crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driver fatigue is thought to be the cause of a crash near Lake Hayes yesterday that left two Australian tourists injured.<\/p>\n<p>Queenstown police area response manager Senior Sergeant Glenn Wilkinson said a vehicle with four occupants was travelling east on State Highway 6 when it veered off the road and hit a tree near the Lake Hayes Pavilion about 4.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>A woman was flown to Dunedin Hospital, and a man was transported to Lakes District Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>It appeared the driver had fallen asleep at the wheel, Sen Sgt Wilkinson said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was a reminder for all drivers to take regular breaks during long trips, or to change drivers if possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Driver fatigue is thought to be the cause of a crash near Lake Hayes yesterday that left two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-286131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}